Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02410-x
Iciar Iturmendi-Sabater,Sejal Jain,Sofia Turcany-Diaz,Reena Besa,Evdokia Anagnostou,Marc A Fournier,Hsiang-Yuan Lin,Meng-Chuan Lai
Self-regulation is critical yet inconsistently defined across neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs). This preregistered (CRD42023350582), PRISMA-aligned overview of reviews aimed to (1) review and summarize definitions and models of self-regulation, (2) synthesize key self-regulation-related constructs and (3) identify common self-regulation measures in NDC populations. We searched Ovid Medline/PsycINFO/Embase, Web of Science-Core Collection and Cochrane Databases (inception to September 2024). We included 35 narrative, 2 scoping, 7 systematic and 3 meta-analytic peer-reviewed reviews of human studies on autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and intellectual disability that addressed self-regulation across emotional, cognitive and behavioural domains. We found that, despite varied terminology, elevated dysregulation was consistently reported across the included reviews. Inductive content analysis of the included reviews identified core psychological constructs related to self-regulation and their developmental and environmental-contextual interplays; the findings converged into a domain-general, transdiagnostic self-regulation framework emphasizing interdependent integration of emotional, cognitive and behavioural processes across contexts. Finally, a meta-summary from 332 primary empirical studies from the included scoping, systematic and meta-analytic reviews (69 autism, 130 intellectual disability and 133 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) revealed measurement gaps with 521 identified measurements relying heavily on parent-report questionnaires. Risk of bias assessed through the Joanna Briggs Institute checklist revealed methodological heterogeneity. This overview of reviews offers guidance for aligning research, assessments and interventions with a domain-general, developmental understanding of self-regulation across NDCs.
自我调节是至关重要的，但在神经发育疾病（ndc）中定义不一致。本预注册（CRD42023350582），与prisma一致的综述旨在(1)回顾和总结自我调节的定义和模型，(2)综合关键的自我调节相关结构，(3)确定NDC人群中常见的自我调节措施。我们检索了Ovid Medline/PsycINFO/Embase、Web of Science-Core Collection和Cochrane数据库（成立至2024年9月）。我们纳入了35篇叙述性、2篇范围性、7篇系统性和3篇同行评议的荟萃分析性综述，涉及自闭症、注意力缺陷/多动障碍和智力残疾的人类研究，这些研究涉及情感、认知和行为领域的自我调节。我们发现，尽管术语不同，但在所纳入的综述中一致报告了升高的失调。对纳入的综述进行归纳性内容分析，确定了与自我调节相关的核心心理构念及其发展与环境语境的相互作用；这些发现融合成一个领域通用的、跨诊断的自我调节框架，强调跨环境的情感、认知和行为过程的相互依存整合。最后，对332项主要实证研究（69项自闭症研究、130项智力残疾研究和133项注意力缺陷/多动障碍研究）的荟萃总结显示，521项确定的测量方法严重依赖于父母报告问卷，存在测量差距。通过乔安娜布里格斯研究所检查表评估的偏倚风险揭示了方法的异质性。本综述为将研究、评估和干预措施与国家自主贡献国家自我调节的总体发展理解结合起来提供了指导。
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Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02416-5
Thomas M Biba,Alexandra Decker,Björn Herrmann,Keisuke Fukuda,Chaim N Katz,Taufik A Valiante,Katherine Duncan
Why do some experiences endure in memory better than others? Here we explore the possibility that learning fluctuates rhythmically several times per second, with fortuitously timed experiences being more memorable. Although such fleeting opportunities for encoding would evade our awareness, they are predicted by a prominent model describing how theta rhythms in the brain coordinate memory-the Separate Phases for Encoding and Retrieval (SPEAR) model. In a preregistered study, we adapted a dense sampling approach to reconstruct the millisecond time course of memory encoding in n = 125 participants. We found that memory encoding fluctuated at a theta rhythm (3-10 Hz), that these rhythms were not a by-product of rhythmic attention and that-like theta rhythms in the brain-memory rhythms were modulated by putative markers of acetylcholine. Our findings provide behavioural evidence consistent with the SPEAR model of episodic memory.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02423-6
Guillaume Marois,Wolfgang Lutz
{"title":"Low fertility may persist and could be good for the economy.","authors":"Guillaume Marois,Wolfgang Lutz","doi":"10.1038/s41562-026-02423-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02423-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147329441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02328-w
Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow,Ro'ee Levy,Adriana Crespo-Tenorio,Natasha Dumas,Winter Mason,Devra Moehler,Pablo Barberá,Taylor Brown,Juan Carlos Cisneros,Drew Dimmery,Deen Freelon,Sandra González-Bailón,Andrew M Guess,Young Mie Kim,David Lazer,Neil Malhotra,Sameer Nair-Desai,Brendan Nyhan,Ana Carolina Paixao de Queiroz,Jennifer Pan,Jaime Settle,Emily Thorson,Rebekah Tromble,Carlos Velasco Rivera,Benjamin Wittenbrink,Magdalena Wojcieszak,Shiqi Yang,Saam Zahedian,Annie Franco,Chad Kiewiet de Jonge,Natalie Jomini Stroud,Joshua A Tucker
We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have political ads removed from their news feeds for 6 weeks before the 2020 US presidential election. We show that most presidential ads were targeted towards parties' own supporters and that fundraising ads were the most common. On both Facebook and Instagram, we found no detectable effects of removing political ads on political knowledge, polarization, perceived legitimacy of the election, political participation (including campaign contributions), candidate favourability and turnout. This was true overall and for both Democrats and Republicans separately.
{"title":"The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election.","authors":"Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow,Ro'ee Levy,Adriana Crespo-Tenorio,Natasha Dumas,Winter Mason,Devra Moehler,Pablo Barberá,Taylor Brown,Juan Carlos Cisneros,Drew Dimmery,Deen Freelon,Sandra González-Bailón,Andrew M Guess,Young Mie Kim,David Lazer,Neil Malhotra,Sameer Nair-Desai,Brendan Nyhan,Ana Carolina Paixao de Queiroz,Jennifer Pan,Jaime Settle,Emily Thorson,Rebekah Tromble,Carlos Velasco Rivera,Benjamin Wittenbrink,Magdalena Wojcieszak,Shiqi Yang,Saam Zahedian,Annie Franco,Chad Kiewiet de Jonge,Natalie Jomini Stroud,Joshua A Tucker","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02328-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02328-w","url":null,"abstract":"We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have political ads removed from their news feeds for 6 weeks before the 2020 US presidential election. We show that most presidential ads were targeted towards parties' own supporters and that fundraising ads were the most common. On both Facebook and Instagram, we found no detectable effects of removing political ads on political knowledge, polarization, perceived legitimacy of the election, political participation (including campaign contributions), candidate favourability and turnout. This was true overall and for both Democrats and Republicans separately.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"248 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147329179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02415-6
Benjamin T Kaveladze, Jan G Voelkel, Michael N Stagnaro, Mingjing Huang, Amanda E Smock, Erin K Sullivan, Yao M Xu, Madison P McCall, Juan Pablo Zapata, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Iva Georgieva, Rosa Hernandez-Ramos, Kenneth S Huber, Julia K Jennings, Arianna C Kirk, Robert S M Knowles, Rachel Kornfield, Monika Neff Lind, Michelle Liu, Michael A Liut, Alex T Mariakakis, Ali M Mattu, Adam P McGuire, Jonah Meyerhoff, Alissa J Mrazek, Michael D Mrazek, David C Mohr, Robert R Morris, Christopher J Mosunic, Hana Nip, Allen Olson-Urtecho, Jessa R Podell, Dustyn S Ransom, Shireen L Rizvi, Matthew W Southward, Sarah Elizabeth Stoeckl, Madison E Taylor, Amy R Texter, Calvin V Tower, Angelique N Trotter, Joseph J Williams, Katherine E Wislocki, Elijah J Woodson, John Protzko, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Stephen M Schueller, Matthew K Nock, Jessica L Schleider
Digital, self-guided, single-session interventions (SSIs) deliver structured psychological support within one interaction. Here we crowdsourced 66 diverse 10-min SSIs for depression and, with input from researchers and lived-experience experts, selected 11 for testing in a preregistered online randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06856668 ). US adults (N = 7,505) experiencing elevated depressive symptoms were randomly assigned to 1 of the 11 crowdsourced SSIs, a validated behavioural activation SSI (active comparator) or a control condition without intervention content. Nearly all SSIs improved psychological outcomes immediately after completion (d ≤ 0.37). However, only two SSIs significantly reduced depression at 4-week follow-up (d = 0.14 and 0.15). Unexpectedly, completing an SSI made participants feel less confident and less interested in making changes to overcome depression at 4 weeks, on average (d = 0.05). Future work should aim to leverage SSIs' immediate benefits to promote sustained behaviour change or service engagement.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-26DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02400-5
{"title":"An ancient mass grave reveals targeted killing of women and children in the Early Iron Age.","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02400-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02400-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147308371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-25DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02407-6
Irmgard Mausz, Paul Sauseng
A supportive research group culture can help to retain talent, promote well-being and improve academic performance. Here we provide practical guidance for cultivating kindness and constructive communication within academic teams.
{"title":"How to foster a supportive research group culture","authors":"Irmgard Mausz, Paul Sauseng","doi":"10.1038/s41562-026-02407-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-026-02407-6","url":null,"abstract":"A supportive research group culture can help to retain talent, promote well-being and improve academic performance. Here we provide practical guidance for cultivating kindness and constructive communication within academic teams.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"10 2","pages":"212-214"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147280955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-25DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02425-4
Collective knowledge is a human strength. To benefit from the wisdom of experience, we launch a Series of Comments in a dedicated ‘How to’ style. These ‘How to’ Comments provide brief advice and practical recommendations to researchers across the wide spectrum of disciplines covered by the journal.
{"title":"Voices of experience","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-026-02425-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-026-02425-4","url":null,"abstract":"Collective knowledge is a human strength. To benefit from the wisdom of experience, we launch a Series of Comments in a dedicated ‘How to’ style. These ‘How to’ Comments provide brief advice and practical recommendations to researchers across the wide spectrum of disciplines covered by the journal.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"10 2","pages":"203-203"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02425-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147280942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-25DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02380-6
Mowafa Househ, Hurmat Ali Shah, Zain Ul Abideen Tariq, Diana Alsayed Hassan, Mohamed Khalifa, Jens Schneider, Mounir Hamdi, Alaa Abd-Alrazaq, Arfan Ahmad, Barry Solaiman, Andre Kushniruk, Saleem Khaldoon Al-Nuaimi
Digital mental health (DMH) encompasses telepsychiatry, mobile apps, games and artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented interventions. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the development and deployment of DMH solutions, particularly those incorporating AI-based mental health support. In this Perspective, we consider both the technological and clinical design spaces and advocate for purpose-driven, patient-centred solutions rather than a technology-first approach. The purpose of DMH should be to address societal gaps in mental healthcare, following established frameworks for chronic illness management to meet the specific needs of each patient. We examine the ethical dimensions of DMH, underscoring the importance of procedural justice, harm prevention and data privacy. Additionally, we highlight the unique challenges faced by marginalized and vulnerable populations, emphasizing the role of DMH in promoting equal availability of mental healthcare. Aligning DMH with user perspectives, ethical considerations and clinician involvement can result in more effective and empathetic digital interventions, thereby transforming mental healthcare delivery. In this Perspective, Househ et al. examine how digital solutions can address pressing needs in mental healthcare, arguing that a patient-centred approach is crucial.
{"title":"Digital mental health needs a purpose-driven approach","authors":"Mowafa Househ, Hurmat Ali Shah, Zain Ul Abideen Tariq, Diana Alsayed Hassan, Mohamed Khalifa, Jens Schneider, Mounir Hamdi, Alaa Abd-Alrazaq, Arfan Ahmad, Barry Solaiman, Andre Kushniruk, Saleem Khaldoon Al-Nuaimi","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02380-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02380-6","url":null,"abstract":"Digital mental health (DMH) encompasses telepsychiatry, mobile apps, games and artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented interventions. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the development and deployment of DMH solutions, particularly those incorporating AI-based mental health support. In this Perspective, we consider both the technological and clinical design spaces and advocate for purpose-driven, patient-centred solutions rather than a technology-first approach. The purpose of DMH should be to address societal gaps in mental healthcare, following established frameworks for chronic illness management to meet the specific needs of each patient. We examine the ethical dimensions of DMH, underscoring the importance of procedural justice, harm prevention and data privacy. Additionally, we highlight the unique challenges faced by marginalized and vulnerable populations, emphasizing the role of DMH in promoting equal availability of mental healthcare. Aligning DMH with user perspectives, ethical considerations and clinician involvement can result in more effective and empathetic digital interventions, thereby transforming mental healthcare delivery. In this Perspective, Househ et al. examine how digital solutions can address pressing needs in mental healthcare, arguing that a patient-centred approach is crucial.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"10 2","pages":"227-238"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-25DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02408-5
Nicolas Gold
Online data offer substantial opportunities for researchers but, despite much discussion in the literature, continue to be accompanied by complex ethical issues. This Comment proposes some pragmatic steps for developing an ethical defence in research that involves this type of data, particularly for researchers new to its use.
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